King

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Travis King, No. 2:20-cv-01326-KJM-DB Plaintiff, ORDER v. City of Sacramento, et al., IS Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Travis King sues the City of Sacramento, Jonathan Houston, Anthony Boler, Eric Klockenbrink and Costco Wholesale Corporation for alleged constitutional and state law 19 violations arising from plaintiffs arrest. Klockenbrink and Costco (collectively “defendants”) move to dismiss King’s state law claims against them under California’s anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (“anti-SLAPP”) statute, California Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16. The court submitted the motion on the briefs without oral argument. For the following 23 reasons, the court grants in part and denies in part the motion to dismiss. 24 I. BACKGROUND Eric Klockenbrink is a loss and prevention officer with Costco Wholesale. First Am. Compl. (FAC) § 50, ECF…